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🗓️ 31 January 2021
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Niki and I riff on some of the plants we’re focusing on in our 2021 garden.
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0:00.0 | Welcome back everyone to the Epic Gardening Podcast. This will be a fun |
0:16.7 | episode for you because we're gonna be riffing both Nicky Jubur and I on what |
0:21.6 | we're growing or what we want to grow in 2021 and you know my situation has changed a lot |
0:27.2 | Nicky obviously with with going from the small front yard garden to this sort of |
0:31.1 | massive at least to me I know a third of an acre isn't very big |
0:34.4 | for some people but for me it's it's absolutely massive and you know that that unlocks |
0:38.4 | so to speak all sorts of different crops that just weren't an option before and |
0:42.4 | I'm curious you know you've |
0:44.2 | got that book veggie garden remix you you obviously have mixed it up a lot in your |
0:48.6 | garden is there anything that that you think should be on our list for this year? |
0:53.0 | Oh my gosh, I've been watching your garden, like just so inspired, |
0:58.0 | so many exciting types of plants you're growing, |
1:00.0 | and so many different types of techniques you're using, |
1:02.0 | so it's |
1:03.2 | really exciting and fun to watch. I just think you should start obviously you have a |
1:07.4 | lot of experience with growing food plants and things so I think you should |
1:10.3 | not only grow the ones you already love but yeah add some new things this year for me I am |
1:14.4 | obsessed with cucumber melons I know most people would know them as Armenian cucumbers and |
1:19.3 | that's usually what you see them listed in seed you know catalogs but the truth is like any type of |
1:24.2 | vegetable there are so many different varieties you know a lot that hail from |
1:28.9 | you know parts of Asia a lot that hail from the Middle, and I've been trying to collect as many different varieties as I can and grow those in my garden. |
1:36.8 | So I'm obsessed with cucumber melons. |
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